Quoting VirusPil:

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Locality of the DVD and CoO of the movie would help.

Would it? I'm not really asking a question here - merely pointing out a problem. But okay, CoO is U.S., DVD locality is The Netherlands. I'll fill in the rest, as well - there are two rules that seem to apply, but that may contradict each other:

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For profiles which have an alternate title displayed on the cover, use the title from the film's credits.

So that's what I initially did: the credits show 'Stolen Hearts', and the cover shows the alternate title of 'Two If by Sea'. Seems appropriate, too; the cover and the credits offer me two name variants, and DVD Profiler offers me two fields to store them in. Unfortunately, the rules also say this:

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For titles released outside their country of origin, use the original release title.

That obviously also applies: this is indeed a film released outside of it's country of origin, so we get to use the "original release title". Unfortunately, the rules neglect to tell us what that is, or where to get it.

Based on a little research, it appears that 'Stolen Hearts' was the title of the film as released in Denmark and the U.K.

The CoO is USA, and the release title here was 'Two if by Sea".

That tells me that the original title is 'Two if by Sea', and since this is a "foreign film" in the locality that it's being profiled for, then the on-screen title does not have to be used as the "Original Title", and should not be.

So it should be profiled as:

Title = Two if by Sea
Original Title = blank

All that to say, I agree with you that the current Rule on original titles is in desperate need of fixing!

And I agree with the person to whom you refer, we need a third title field:

They should be labeled:

DVD Cover Title - exactly what you see on the cover (using a standard keyboard)
On-Screen Title - exactly what you see in the opening credits (using a standard keyboard)
Original Title - title used in the CoO at time of original release (may require research)

Quoting T!M:

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Quoting VirusPil:

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Yes, I think it matters

As you can see, I'd already reached the same conclusion. Again, I wasn't so much asking a question, but simply pointing out a problem - being that this results in the actual on-screen title not being stored in the profile. For a program that's based in taking as much as possible "as credited" from the film credits, it remains a tad strange that on occasion, we actually ignore the actual on-screen title. That's all I was trying to say - plus that a third field for "on-screen title" would be a good idea.

No problem, I was just trying to explain my current understanding of this rule. But it's not always easy, here I agree absolutely with you.
I think there were many threads on this. The last one which I can remember as one with very much possibilities was about "Black Ops".

My problem: I can't imagine how we could make this part much better.

Ok, a third field would be a beginning. But why not also adding all the aka?

I saw it in the theater when it was released in the US and it was called Two If By Sea.

(IMO under either title it was a disappointment.  I remember thinking Bullock & Leary must have owed someone a favor and paid it off by doing this film.  Didn't realize at the time Leary was also the writer.)